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About Us Welcome! Our names are Anna and Alexa. We started The Pioneer Chicks in 2015 as a way to share our knowledge of poultry and the delicious recipes that we love to create! Over the years, we have decided to take our name to heart, and strive to become modern pioneers! We wanted to start living a more simple, self-sufficient lifestyle so that we could have more time and money to spend on the things that mattered most to us. Explore... Chickens Chickens are the gateway animal to homesteading. Our goal at The Pioneer Chicks is to provide you with solid, researched-based information so that you will know how to best care for your homestead flock. We have been raising poultry since 2010 and have learned a lot from our feathered friends! Our articles are well researched and are based off of our own personal experiences. Explore... Recipes Being a modern pioneer means eating a sustainable diet, preparing your own food, and adapting your diet to meet your own dietary restrictions. We love creating new recipes to share with you, whether they are main meals, side dishes, desserts, or snack! Most of our recipes are:
- grain-free
- tree nut free
- gluten-free
- corn-free
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Trading Post We want to help you on your journey to become a modern pioneer. The Trading Post is a place where you can find Pioneer Resources and Pioneer Printables that will help you learn numerous pioneer life skills! These resources and printables are all easy to download and print at home so you can build your own Modern Pioneer Resource Binder to referance along your homestead journey. Plus, purchases from the Trading Post help support our modern pioneer community. Explore...

Become a Modern Pioneer Today!

We want to help you start your modern pioneer journey! That’s why we have created this pioneer starter package and are offering it for free! The package includes a Modern Pioneer Checklist Challenge, an ebook on Raising Chickens Like a Pioneer, and a cookbook with 17 Pioneer Egg Recipes. Get your package and start becoming a modern pioneer today!

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What You Get For Becoming A Pioneer

Becoming a pioneer in this modern world is challenging! We would love to help you on your journey to a more sustainable and healthy lifestyle! Here’s what you get for becoming a pioneer with us.

The Modern Pioneer Checklist

This checklist challenge presents you with 15 tasks to complete in order to get you started on your pioneer journey. Each task is an action step towards becoming a modern pioneer. You can work through this checklist at your own pace and each task is feasible for wherever you are at in the pioneer journey.

Raising Chickens like a Pioneer eBook

Our ebook on raising backyard chickens like the pioneers once did will give you an insightful perspective on how to raise a sustainable, healthy flock of chickens. This ebook will provide you with 10 simple actions you can take to raise your chickens like you’re on the frontier!

17 Pioneer Egg Recipes Cookbook

This pioneer cookbook that you will receive is dedicated to healthy, wholesome egg recipes that are easy for any pioneer cook to try! All of the recipes are gluten-free and there are ideas for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks so that you can eat like a pioneer!

Bi-Weekly Newsletters with Exclusive Content

You will also get bi-weekly support from our newsletter! Each newsletter contains exclusive content such as raising livestock tips, home cooking ideas, natural product recipes, and other information to help you on your journey to becoming a modern pioneer!

Why You Should Become a Modern Pioneer

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Develop Life Skills

Knowing that you could survive in the face of hostile elements is comforting and thrilling. By developing pioneer life skills, you can become more self-reliant and broaden your horizons to new activities that will help you build your very own homestead, no matter where you live!

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Make Money

In this modern day and age, it’s hard to live without money. Thankfully, you can become a modern pioneer and make money at it too! Part of becoming self-reliant is knowing that you can make and sell goods yourself and provide a modest income to support you and your family. Pioneering provides many avenues for creating a sustainable income!

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Emergency Preparedness

Living a more self-sustaining lifestyle means you are more prepared for emergencies. Whether they be personal, like the loss of a job, national, like the Great Depression, or global, like the recent COVID-19 outbreak. You will be prepared since you are becoming a modern pioneer!

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Sustainability and Simplicity

Modern pioneers can take simple action steps every day to create for themselves a more sustainable and healthy lifestyle. No matter where you are at in life, there is always something you can do to develop self-sustaining habits and create a simple but fulfilling home environment.

Gluten-free Maple Oatmeal Bars

Gluten-free Maple Oatmeal Barsgluten-free | naturally sweetened | tree nut freeby Alexa Lehr | The Pioneer Chicks | March 20, 2025This post may contain affiliate links. See our Disclosure for more information. Better known in our house as chewy maple bars… these gluten-free maple oatmeal bars are perfectly sweetened with...

What NOT to Include in the Brooder

What NOT to Include in the Brooderby Alexa Lehr | The Pioneer Chicks | March 18, 2025This post may contain affiliate links. See our Disclosure for more information. The brooder provides a chick’s three basic survival needs: heat, food, and water. Knowing how to properly set up the brooder is...

Gluten-free Fluffy Pizza Crust (dairy-free)

Gluten-free Fluffy Pizza Crustgluten-free | dairy-free | corn free | tree nut freeby Alexa Lehr | The Pioneer Chicks | March 13, 2025This post may contain affiliate links. See our Disclosure for more information. I love pizza. Any kind of pizza. And I’m the kind of pizza lover who loves...

Chicken First Aid Kit Supplies Guide

Chicken First Aid Kit Supplies Guideby Alexa Lehr | The Pioneer Chicks | Mar. 4, 2025This post may contain affiliate links. See our Disclosure for more information. Having a basic chicken first aid kit on hand can help you address issues in your homestead flock quickly and effectively. A well-stocked...

Gluten-free Chocolate Chip Oat Waffles

Gluten-free Chocolate Chip Oat Wafflesgluten-free | dairy-free | tree nut freeby Alexa Lehr | The Pioneer Chicks | Feb. 27, 2025This post may contain affiliate links. See our Disclosure for more information. Want to know the surest way to make the best waffles ever? Add chocolate chips! These gluten-free chocolate...

Dairy-free Cheesy Ham Quiche

Dairy-free Cheesy Ham Quichegluten-free | grain-free | dairy-free option | tree nut freeby Alexa Lehr | The Pioneer Chicks | Feb. 25, 2025This post may contain affiliate links. See our Disclosure for more information. Having a homemade quiche recipe in your homestead recipe stash is a great way to use...